Madhu, a member of Durga Vahini, the womens wing of Hindu nationalist group Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) or National Volunteers Association, performs a self-defense exercise with a stick on the outskirts of Jammu, India, Friday, June 18, 2004. The RSS organized a seven-day camp for self-defense training for its women cadres belonging to militancy-affected areas that ended Friday. (AP Photo/Channi Anand)

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Saina Nehwal was thwarted in her quest to become first Indian women's player to win a gold medal at the World Championship. She lost her final match against defending champion and number one seed Carolina Marin,16-21 19-21, in Jakarta on Sunday.

Pakistan's Punjab province Home Minister Shuja Khanzada was assassinated Sunday in a suicide attack, killing at least 12 people and injuring several others.

An Indonesian airliner carrying 54 people that went missing Sunday was finally found crashed in a village. It had lost contact with ground control while flying in bad weather on a short flight in the country's mountainous easternmost province of Papua.

An integral part of PM Modi's maiden trip--spanning the 16th and 17th of August-- to the United Arab Emirates will be a visit to a labour camp that hosts several Indian construction workers and other blue collar workers.

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The Vyapam scam has failed to dent the prospects of the Bharatiya Janata Party in Madhya Pradesh, with the ruling party winning power in eight of the 10 civic bodies, to which elections were held on August 12.

Below-par rainfall across India for more than two weeks has pushed the monsoon deficit to 10% below normal, increasing worries of a second successive drought year in the country.

The Gujarat government is moving to punish suspended IPS officer, Sanjiv Bhatt, as he allegedly appears in a "sex video" with a woman, who is not his wife. Bhatt had accused PM Modi of being deliberately negligent during the Gujarat riots.

PM Narendra Modi on Sunday said he wanted to see UAE emerge as India's foremost partner in trade and counterterror measures, describing the country as a paradise built in a desert with "unmatched vision".

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The RSS, which has so far kept women out of its shakhas, has of late been striving towards a gender balance. It has stepped up efforts to get more women enrolled in its affiliates and asked these to appoint women as office-bearers too.

The UAE today decided to allot land for building a temple in Abu Dhabi, the first in the Emirati capital as Prime Minister Narendra Modi today began his two-day visit to the strategic Gulf nation.

This is how Whatsapp played a key role in helping police nab a criminal-suspect aboard a train in Odisha.